Flammen's place.

So......

2011-04-12T14:32:00.005+01:00

At a seemingly dead end in my life.
After being there for the birth of my son, at the time I was unemployed but still feeling euphoric like nothing matter, I was truly happy then after all the silver lining of being unemployed at THAT time was that I didn't have to get a call whilst I was working, and risk not seeing the birth of my son.. but after he was born I knew I'd have to thrash myself mentally to give me the motivation to find work, as in the past before even knowing I'd ever have a son, I'd be slack about it (as teenagers are) but partly, or maybe mostly due to the fact I never left school with any qualifications.

It turns out though, my motivation isn't a problem, I've searched and searched and searched for jobs, alot of which even I am qualified to do, but through the countless processes, questions and inquisitions you have to face, obviously something of my personality that shines through on my CV and applications people do not like. I've been screwed over by recruitment agencies aswell as the government so I am relying on other people and their good will to help me and my family through this time in our lives, and believe me, if you think you are hard working BEFORE having a child, you will definately know you are hard working AFTER having one, their face and personality drives you to work hard, to give them every opportunity to grow to someone great in the future.

Not being able to find work at the moment hurts me deeply, as I'm not providing for anyone, I'm just a sponge right now, whether I like it or not, I'm a leech, taking what other people have earned through THEIR hard work, not mine.. but on that, you'll struggle to take money from other people when you're alone but if you have a child, you'll take it in a heartbeat, if you're that desperate.

Times are hard for alot of people, as always really but I can't help the feeling that I get in Bradford, I see alot of (Slovak) Romany Gypsy adults during the daytime during every day of the week doing nothing but hanging around, clearly not working for any money but somehow they have expensive cars (or cars at all) and still manage to have expensive clothes et cetera. That's what I don't understand... for one these people come from a arguably poor country, but they're here, not working at all (the opposite to the stereotype that eastern-Europeans take everyones plumbing jobs).

I'm not exactly complaining though to a degree, because it means more jobs for me right? Wrong. The more money the government loses on spending it on willingly-jobless scum the more they have to cut on public sectors, meaning these people end up in private sector work, taking up the spots that would normally be open for a guy like me (if I was better qualified).

It's a typical case of the grass is greener, they seem to get away with running on foreign number plates for the entire duration of the cars life when it's illegal to do so for more than 6-12 months, they seem to enjoy shouting and screaming at each other, standing in the middle of the roads and the children here don't have a regard for their own safety. Yet if it was me, I'd be arrested for some kind of vehicle-tax fraud, I'd be deaf and I'd have been seriously injured from being hit by a car.

I'm almost at the point of begging, they wouldn't even take me at KFC. What's that all about? I'm overqualified for that job, I visited college after effectively quitting school and got City & Guilds - Maths and English but no, that either wasn't enough, or it was too much, after filling in the questionnaire online they wouldn't take me due to a mismatch in agendas.... I mean what the hell!?

Since I effectively earn a negative amount of money, maybe it's better that I just don't exist?

Madeleine.

2009-02-14T02:41:00.007Z

Don't mis-understand me, I know the last thing any parent wants is to lose their child but now it's about 2years on and not to my surprise this www.findMadeleine.com campaign is still going on. Well, I decided to visit their website to see if the parents had finally given up on her, or were still clutching at straws. It just seems to me that, everything on that website is manufactured. Everything seems plastic. Un-human. I honestly believe it's a scam, just think how much money they must have raised from pretending their daughter has been kidnapped. The actual story of the kidnapping is something along the lines of children getting left in a room on their own with an window open. So if they care about 'Maddie' that little, why are they going to so much trouble to find her? Seems like it was rather 'easy pickings' for the paedophile or whoever abducted her.

The slogans on the (admittedly two months out of date) website are along the lines of "This is our second Christmas without Maddie. Please make sure we don't have a third. Well, whether they are scammers or not, why should WE (the public) be giving money to them for their mistake of leaving the child on it's own to be easily captured by some bent citizen of an unknown description? As far as I know one of the parents is a Doctor and the other a Lawyer. Is digging in their own pockets really so hard?

If they did all they could with their own money and what they were asking for through the campaign was enough money to regain economic stability for their own lives then I would understand it and it would make the whole campaign look more plausible. I can't help thinking that sooner or later, Madeleine will just appear and everything will be swings and roundabouts but then that is when people will start asking questions. The little girl will get interrogated about what happened to her and hopefully she tells the truth. Hopefully the McCanns are innocent of conning millions of people all over the WORLD out of their money because if they were conning people at the expense of their daughters freedom and her own life then it would be a sad day for humanity but then, if I'm not mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time anyway. Remember recently there was a girl called Shannon and her parents did exactly the same, only failed but either way, when Madeleine returns and her parents are locked up or fined big-time she will most probobly sell a book about her ordeal (which won't be written by her directly anyway) so it is all swings, and definately roundabouts. :)

Well, I kinda came to this theory.

2008-03-29T21:25:00.003Z

You know how ANNOYING it is, when political correctness seems to edge it's way into many forms of our lives, work, school, not REALLY at home, well, unless you have a Liberal sister, or something. Well anyway, in these situations it's usually the 'racism' card getting played and dealt at every opportunity and in school, they are teaching kids these days that what determines different Races, is the colour of a persons skin. Well, that may be all well and a good but the word Racism, covers too much of a widespread literal area, to constitute being used only to the meaning of Racism being something to do with the colour of peoples skin. For instance, if I said I hated all Jews, that would be racist in many peoples minds, but the fact is, the word racism now, is the collective word for discriminating anything of a different cultural origin to oneself so, if I called all Muslims terrorists that would of been racist anyway, because, ALL Muslims aren't white.... Well, what do you know, there ARE some white Muslims. So this statement can't be RACIST as it covers TOO many 'RACES' including MY OWN.

The word Racism now, has become acustomed to difference of cultures, it's like saying all Germans are Nazi's, all Jews want money and that all goths and emo's are suicidal. It's all a difference of culture. One thing that puzzles me though, is that, if i was too go into the street and randomly start saying to peoples faces YOU JEW people would jump the gun, infact, jump the ATOM bomb and call me a Racist but if THEY took offence to being called a Jew and they weren't a Jew, that means THEY are the racist person becuase they do NOT want to be called a JEW, what is wrong with Jews? Nothing, so why the FUCK wouldn't anyone wanna be called one? Obviously things are distorted, because if I called a Jew, a Jew and he took offence to it, that means he doesn't like being called what he IS? I mean, it's not like calling him a Jew in a slang word that is derogatory...

So here we are....

2008-01-08T17:24:00.000Z

So.. I'll start with the sentence that is probably the most popular in every blog across the globe, by saying : So, I eventually got a blog.. Except with THESE type of blog posts, the people writing them tend not to write very much, but unlucky for you miserable bastards who I have flogged the link to. I do write much :D.

Me
So, if you don't really know me, or we haven't really spoken. I am just at the tender age of 17. I am an avid learner, even though actually, I hate being taught things (possibly because of my star sign [Virgo]). I get told many times during the years that I am a bright person and especially good at languages. These statements I do not support, just because I simply don't feel this way about my life, I feel I have been given an equal opportunity like every other soul in their own life. Regarding languages, I live in England and was born here in 1990. My mother and father's sides of the family both are English for many generations, but eventually end up in ancestral Germany, Much to the delight of me, because I love Germany, German cars, German girls, and the German language, but oddly enough it's not Germany that holds my obsession, it's further north than Germany, no, not Denmark (cos they all speak like weirdos) and not even Sweden.

To the west of Sweden, is Norway...; Beautiful. Elegant. Cold. Clean. Safe. Fun. Humorous Norway. It's so Cold, Clean, Beautiful and Safe that I want to live there and I have been learning Norwegian for about 2 years although I wouldn't call it LEARNING, because the way I have acquired the knowledge of the languages purely originated, from some of my Norwegian gamer friends, telling me some rude things, and getting me to say them to other Norwegians. Due to my general Interest for their Language and culture from the start, I wanted to learn some words anyway, and through both of these instances I ended up being able to ask how someones day was, but I didn't know enough to expand on that and I had to then speak English eventually to get my point across.

These days tho, I can converse extremely well in my opinion. The fact I am English, and speaking Norwegian, makes English people say WTF, and it makes Norwegian people wanna be your best friend. I spoke to Thomas Nataas who is Norway's best International Drag Racer, and We conversed in Norwegian, my dad just stood in complete wonderment with a smile of pride, and then eventually cut Mine and Thomas' Norwegian short and said, "I wish I knew what you two were saying" Thomas then replied with "We are talking shit about you!". Was a great milestone in my life. I still to this day can't really believe what I had done. When I started to speak to him, it didn't even seem like my accent was bad, so he just assumed I was Norwegian, and then I just HAD to tell him that I was English, and he was totally Amazed by it. Shame though, I kinda get the feeling he thought I was obsessed with HIM, and that's why I learn Norwegian hahah, but it's the other way around Thomas. I promise!

I can speak other languages almost perfect (so the people from these countries tell me) Although, most of the time, unless it's in Norwegian or MAYBE in Swedish, I don't have a clue what I am saying. I think god's gift to ME, is that I am able to read languages, and just read them almost correctly from the beginning, then with a bit of help. It's all good. I sing on Ventrilo and Teamspeak to people from all around Europe, Slovenia, Holland, Sweden, Denmark and of course Norway, singing in their native language, just to make them laugh. And I'd be seriously lying if I said I didn't enjoy the attention! As music goes, I love 80's music, I love the synth sound and the snare drums, I love all that and as inspiration to this I have my own myspace, where I upload tracks I have made, Here it is : http://www.myspace.com/flammenjc

So, I'll leave you now, you can probably check out my page and laugh at the way they sound like something you would find on a Pokémon gameboy game.

The next post (and probably every other post after this) will probably be something to do with Race, Terrorism. And joyous controversial issues.

Until next time,
Happy camping!
Jake